Lines to ponder

"For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make
an end is to
make a beginning."

T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding""

"Ring out the old,
ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells,
across the snow:
The year is going,
let him go;
Ring out the false,
ring in the true."

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

"Glory to God
in highest heaven,
Who unto man
His Son hath given;
While angels sing
with tender mirth,
A glad new year
to all the earth."

Martin Luther

"Good resolutions
are simply checks
that men draw
on a bank where they
have no account."

Oscar Wilde